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20 Years of Wi-Fi

2019 marks #20yearsofwifi and Wi-Fi Alliance® is celebrating two decades of connecting people and improving everyday lives through Wi-Fi®.

Wi-Fi’s inherent strengths and Wi-Fi Alliance commitment to interoperability, security, ease of use, and innovation have made Wi-Fi one of the greatest success stories of the technology era. Wi-Fi Alliance has driven the success of Wi-Fi through thought leadership, spectrum advocacy, and global collaboration for twenty years, and is positioned to lead the industry through many more decades of Wi-Fi success.

Now more than ever Wi-Fi Alliance is closer to delivering its vision of connecting everyone and everything, everywhere. We continue our constant collaboration, evolution, and development of technologies and certification programs that help Wi-Fi devices deliver reliable, secure, positive user experiences now and for future generations.

Connecting everyone and everything, everywhere

The newest generation of Wi-Fi connectivity is here, with Wi-Fi 6 as the foundation and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3™ providing the latest security protections. Wi-Fi Alliance already delivers a host of connectivity use cases for the future and is diligently working to ensure Wi-Fi success in new and emerging uses.

New frequency bands: Further work in the 60 GHz band will deliver multi-gigabit speeds for bandwidth intensive applications, and the opening of the 6 GHz band to Wi-Fi in markets around the globe will ensure quality of service as Wi-Fi expands into an even wider variety of device types and uses.

Enabling more efficient network operation: Wi-Fi benefits carriers today through cellular offloading and will become even more important in operator networks – complementing 5G deployments – to support advanced use cases and increasing mobile data traffic. Wi-Fi enables the expansion of networks and represents the “last 100 feet” of end-to-end connectivity.